Yuriy G. Shmelev

Yuriy Germanovich Shmelev (1982-2008) was a Faustin crime family hitman who was sent to murder Florian Cravic and Niko Bellic in 2008. However, he failed in this attempt, and Bellic chased him down to a pier in Astoria, Queens, where Shmelev was killed.

Biography
Yuriy Germanovich Shmelev was born in Petrovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1982, and he emigrated to the United States in 2001, settling in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of New York City. Shmelev was hired as a hitman by Mikhail Faustin and the Faustin crime family, and he became an experienced killer. In 2008, Dimitri Rascalov sent Shmelev, Aristarkh G. Shibalov, and Vikentiy V. Anisimov to murder Florian Cravic and Niko Bellic as they rode a boat down to Coney Island for a picnic. Shmelev fired an MP5 at the two men, but he missed them, and he attempted to speed off. Bellic chased them down on his speedboat, and Shmelev's boat crashed at a pier in Astoria, Queens, and the three Russian hitmen fled into the nearby park. Bellic engaged in a shootout with the three men, and he gunned Shmelev down next to a park bench, killing him.